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Indian Express
7 hours ago
- Indian Express
Youth, woman friend arrested for sexually assaulting 10-year-old girl: Police
Meghawadi police arrested a 24-year-old man and his 21-year-old woman friend on Thursday for allegedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl with a screwdriver, causing injury to her private part. The accused also filmed the crime, the police said. According to the police, the girl's 36-year-old mother works as a supervisor in a catering service firm. She lives in a chawl. The accused, both waiters who work under her, also stayed with her. As per the police complaint, when the girl's mother was out at work between May 15 and June 14, the accused sexually assaulted the 10-year-old at least four times. Police said the 24-year-old man allegedly raped the girl several times, assaulted her with a screwdriver while his girlfriend filmed the crime. The man also allegedly assaulted the girl with blunt objects and threatened to make the video viral if she told her mother about it, police said. On Thursday, she told her mother about the sexual assault, who reported it to the police. 'Both accused have been arrested. They were produced before a special court, which remanded them in two-day police custody,' said Sambhaji Jadhav, senior inspector, Meghwadi police station. Police have pressed sections 64(1) (rape), 64(2)(i) (rape on a woman incapable of giving consent), 77 (voyeurism), 115 (voluntarily causing hurt), 352 (intentional insult by abusing), 351(3) (criminal intimidation by threatening to cause death or grievous hurt) of BNS; 4, 6, 8 and 12 of POCSO Act, and 66E and 67B of IT Act.
Time of India
11 hours ago
- Time of India
15 repeat offenders arrested in Telangana for circulating child porn; one is IIT graduate
Live Events (You can now subscribe to our (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel The Telangana Cyber Security Bureau (TGCSB)'s Child Protection Unit (CPU) arrested 15 men on Wednesday for repeatedly watching, saving, and sharing child sexual abuse material (CSEAM). The arrests happened in a single-day of the arrested is a 30-year-old software engineer who graduated from IIT-Kharagpur. He works at a Hyderabad-based company and reportedly earns ₹35 lakh a year. He lives with his wife and daughter. Another arrested man is an unemployed engineering graduate from Yadagirigutta who had been caught earlier in a similar TGCSB said that all the men were previously linked to 34 earlier cases of child abuse material, including 17 directly handled by the bureau. This latest action was based on 57 complaints passed on by Interpol through the Union Home arrested men are between 19 and 50 years old, mostly in their 20s, and come from middle-class families. They work in different fields like software, construction, auto repair, and sales. All of them are now in judicial Director Shikha Goel said the disturbing content showed children between 6 and 14 years of age. The men were charged under the IT Act and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.[With TOI inputs]
Time of India
20 hours ago
- Time of India
24-year-old Hyderabad techie targeted with rape threats, obscene videos on social media; cyberstalking case registered
HYDERABAD: A 24-year-old information technology (IT) professional from Allapur was targeted by unidentified offenders on Instagram and X. On her complaint, the Cyberabad police have registered a case on the charges of cyberstalking. The victim, who works for a Hafeezpet-based software company, began receiving threatening messages in April 2024. According to her, the harassment intensified by April-end, with the offenders sending abusive messages from various handles on Instagram and X. "They were issuing rape and acid attack threats, circulating morphed obscene videos, and disseminating defamatory rumours about her family," a Cyber Crime officer said. In her complaint, the woman alleged that the offenders collected her personal data from various job portals and social media platforms and wrote negative emails to her human resources department in an attempt to jeopardise her career. The victim claimed that due to one such email, she had to give clarification to the HR manager. Based on her complaint, the Raidurgam police had initially registered a case in May 2025, and recently the case was transferred to the Cyber Crime police by Cyberabad police commissioner Avinash Mohanty. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Perdagangkan CFD Emas dengan Broker Tepercaya IC Markets Mendaftar Undo Cyber Crime police re-registered the case on Wednesday under Sections 351(2) (criminal intimidation) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and 66-C of the IT Act. "We are in the process of identifying the accused by collecting their details from social media platforms and email domains to trace their digital footprints," the police said.
Hindustan Times
21 hours ago
- Business
- Hindustan Times
Noida man loses ₹48 lakh in forex trading fraud
Noida: A 54-year-old man in Noida was allegedly duped of ₹48.60 lakh on the pretext of making a profit through forex trading, police said on Thursday. Police said the victim, Sandeep Agarwal, a resident of Sector 45, stated in his complaint that he was initiated into forex trading by a woman he had come into contact with on social media a few months ago. 'Initially I was not interested, but she kept insisting, and I opened a trading account. I was asked to deposit the money through some dealers,' the FIR cites him as saying. Police said the victim was told that he could only invest through a dealer, not directly. 'Initially, he made small investments and withdrew profit,' said cybercrime branch SHO Ranjeet Singh, adding but after she won his faith, he went on to invest ₹48.60 lakh. 'The victim realised he had been cheated on May 13 after fraudsters asked him to deposit tax to withdraw profit. He filed a police complaint, and a case of cheating and cheating by personation of the BNS and the IT Act was registered. Further investigation is on,' the SHO added.
Time of India
a day ago
- Politics
- Time of India
Privacy is a fundamental right but is subject to reasonable curbs: High Court
BHOPAL: In a ruling that could shape how digital evidence is treated in matrimonial disputes, Madhya Pradesh HC has upheld the admissibility of WhatsApp chats, even if obtained without consent. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Right to privacy is a fundamental right under Article 21 of the Constitution, but it is not absolute and can be subject to reasonable restrictions - particularly if it clashes with the right to a fair trial, which too is a constitutional guarantee, the bench of Justice Ashish Shroti observed in a recent order. The petition was filed by a woman challenging a family court order that allowed her estranged husband to exhibit private chats as evidence in an ongoing divorce case. The couple married on Dec 1, 2016, and have a seven-year-old daughter. The husband filed for divorce under section 13 of Hindu Marriage Act, alleging cruelty and adultery. To substantiate his claims, he relied on WhatsApp conversations that were allegedly forwarded to his phone via an app secretly installed on his wife's mobile phone. These messages allegedly indicated an extramarital relationship. When the husband sought to introduce the WhatsApp chats as evidence during trial, the wife objected on the grounds that the material had been obtained illegally, in violation of her fundamental right to privacy. Her counsel argued that the husband's method to obtain the chats breached the IT Act. HC rejected these arguments, taking the view that under section 14 of the Family Courts Act, courts have the liberty to accept any evidence - regardless of admissibility under the Indian Evidence Act - if it aids in the effective resolution of disputes. Citing SC precedents, Justice Shroti affirmed that evidence obtained even by unlawful means can still be accepted, provided it is relevant and authentic. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now He upheld the family court's April 2023 order permitting the WhatsApp chats to be exhibited, stating that the test of admissibility is relevance, not the means of collection. The court also concluded that in cases involving conflict between two rights under Article 21 - the right to privacy and the right to a fair trial - the latter must prevail if public justice is at stake. Additionally, the court invoked section 122 of the Indian Evidence Act, which generally prohibits disclosure of marital communications, but makes an explicit exception for suits between spouses, such as divorce proceedings.
